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Malcolm X belief that one must completely separate from other cultures to achieve equal rights.
BONUS: What was the bracero program?
Separatism
Mexican American immigrants were hired under low pay and long hours by farmers in exchange for citizenship.
Gave the famous "I Have A Dream" speech at the march on Washington and worked with Rosa Parks to start the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
BONUS: What type of activism did the support?
MLK Jr.
Civil Disobedience
Lyndon B. Johnson signed this law into action that outlawed segregation in businesses.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
BONUS: What was the student led chapter of this group called?
SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
He was the leader and founder of the Black Panther Party.
Stokely Carmichael
BONUS: Who was their leader?
Black Panther Party
Stokely Carmichael
Civil rights activist that helped MLK Jr. start the Montgomery Bus Boycott after refusing to give up her seat.
BONUS: What were the buses that went through the South to increase voter registration for African Americans called?
Freedom Rides
What court case established segregation?
BONUS: What court case made segregation illegal?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Brown vs. BOE
The branch of the SCLC that was led by students which eventually turned violent after becoming frustrated with MLK Jr. slow approach.
BONUS: What was the pastor led branch of this group called?
SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference
What was the purpose of MLK's Letters from Birmingham?
To show that he was frustrated, wanted change, and that he would not rest until civil rights was spread across the United States. Emphasized the role that segregation plays on the segregated as well as the segregator, etc.
What were some tactics used by civil rights activists during the Civil Rights Movment?
sit ins, wade ins, kneel ins, freedom rides etc.
He was the lawyer for the NAACP and was the first ever African American supreme court justice.
BONUS: What court case established desegregation?
Thurgood Marshall
Brown vs BOE
What was the first piece of civil rights legislation passed since Reconstruction under the Eisenhower administration?
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Group founded by James Farmer that was nonviolent at first but later resorted to violence with a focus on racial equality.
BONUS: What's the belief that in order to get equality one must completely separate from other cultures called?
CORE - Congress of Racial Equality
separatism
What law did women want passed so that there would be no pay disparity between men and women?
BONUS: What landmark case was centered around the issue of abortion?
Equal Pay Act
Roe vs. Wade
Where did MLK give his famous "I Have A Dream Speech?"
BONUS: What was the Native American militant group that was formed to fight for Native American rights/equalit?
March on Washington
AIM (American Indian Movement)
Founder of the first ever African American majority labor union called Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Phillip A. Randolph
Act that prohibited segregation of any level and created the EEOC to enforce equal pay and equal rights in the job hiring process.
BONUS: What is it called when you hire someone based off of their story instead of their resume/expereince?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
affirmative action
Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to take action when the Arkansas government blocked this group of students from integrating into Central High.
BONUS: How did Eisenhower respond?
Little Rock 9
He ordered the National Guard to protect them as they went about the campus and there usual day.
What book did Betty Friedan write after interviewing women across the U.S. to discover that they weren't fulfilled with their lives?
BONUS: What did Title IX 9 do?
The Feminine Mystique
prohibited discrimination in college admissions and athletics based off of gender
What did the 24th amendment abolish so that voting would be made easier for the poor?
poll tax
U.S. president that desegregated the military.
Harry Truman
What landmark legislation outlawed discrimination in voting?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Group that fought for the Brown family in the Brown v BOE case and still exists to this day.
BONUS: Who was the lead lawyer for this case?
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Thurgood Marshall
Who was the leader of the Hispanic Movement?
BONUS: What was the name of his labor union?
Ceaser Chavez
United Farm Workers